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Looking for dentist in Durham or Chapel Hill

I'm looking for a good dentist in the Durham/Chapel Hill, NC area.
posted to Ask Metafilter by feathermeat at 6:45 PM on May 21, 2008 (6 comments)

Woman with osteogenesis imperfecta delivers baby

Eloysa Vasquez, a 37-pound woman with osteogenesis imperfecta (the "brittle bone disease"), has given birth to a premature, but otherwise healthy, son. OI is the disease affecting the actor Michael J. Anderson, most famous for his roles as "The Little Man from Another Place" in Twin Peaks and Samson in Carnivale. Children with OI experience so many broken bones that their parents are frequently suspected of child abuse.
posted to MetaFilter by feathermeat at 6:02 PM on February 11, 2006 (58 comments)

The art of Scott Musgrove

Specious Beasts: the unsuccessful fauna of the American West.
posted to MetaFilter by feathermeat at 5:57 PM on February 6, 2006 (15 comments)

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine (1896) (some images NSFW).
posted to MetaFilter by feathermeat at 11:01 AM on February 5, 2006 (13 comments)

Number nine, number nine, number nine...

Mix your own version of John Lennon's "Revolution 9" (warning: embedded sound), read the transcription of its spoken parts, and listen to it backwards.
posted to MetaFilter by feathermeat at 9:25 PM on February 3, 2006 (4 comments)

Why is phosphorus so biologically important?

To the biochemists: what's so special about phosphorus?
posted to Ask Metafilter by feathermeat at 9:34 AM on January 22, 2006 (10 comments)

Mad Gasser of Mattoon

In 1944, the town of Mattoon, Illinois found itself in a collective panic over the exploits of a "phantom anesthetist", who was breaking into houses and subjecting victims to a paralyzing gas. Was the Mad Gasser of Mattoon (pdf) real, or were the town's citizens suffering from mass hysteria?
posted to MetaFilter by feathermeat at 6:53 PM on January 1, 2006 (29 comments)

Lightspeed Travel Simulation

What would Tübingen look like if you traveled through it at the speed of light?
posted to MetaFilter by feathermeat at 10:52 PM on December 29, 2005 (33 comments)

Naxi Language

The script of the Naxi (or Nakhi) people of China's Yunnan province is the only extant pictographic language. The Naxi script, known as Dongba, has traditionally been the domain of spiritual leaders, and despite preservation efforts, is in danger of extinction.
posted to MetaFilter by feathermeat at 10:25 PM on December 28, 2005 (12 comments)

Why is Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" so widely anthologized?

Imagism experts: why is Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" so widely anthologized?
posted to Ask Metafilter by feathermeat at 8:50 PM on December 27, 2005 (13 comments)